“Steel is used on the aircraft where the need for strength merits the weight penalty: landing gear, engine shafts, high-load fasteners, shafts, gears, and bearings. It is also metal under real substitution pressure, with titanium taking share in specific applications while steel holds firm in others. As a result, though, what steel grades remain on the aircraft are specialty grades – a lot of different specialty grades. Knowing which way each application is moving is the difference between a sound sourcing plan and a stranded one.

The Aerospace Steel market report characterizes global demand, analyzes upstream supply risk for its alloying elements, maps the supply base, and forecasts the demand for steel mill product. It includes:

• Steel demand by aircraft system, airframe versus engine OEM, form, and grade family, with a five-year buy-weight forecast
• Upstream supply-risk assessment by alloying element, including chromium, cobalt, molybdenum, manganese, and more, with risk views for China, Russia, and Ukraine
• Material displacement and demand-shift trends showing where steel is gaining or losing ground
• Decarbonization pathways, including hydrogen-based DRI and carbon capture, and their implications for the supply base
• Supplier profiles and market shares for the top aerospace steel mills including Aubert & Duval, Carpenter Technology, and many more

Built for aerospace strategy, procurement and supply chain, and investor teams tracking a metal whose demand map is being redrawn application by application.”